The University at Buffalo requires a Math Readiness Assessment (MRA) to determine readiness for students wishing to enroll in first semester calculus courses, MTH 121, MTH 131, and MTH 141. The UB MRA ...

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already mastered ...

In the not-too-distant past, the kindergarten classrooms at Pleasant Grove Elementary in Heflin, Ala., looked much the same as classrooms for older children. Desks were arranged in rows. Children ...

As millions of California students prepare to take new online assessments beginning in the 3 rd grade, districts are grappling with how best to measure academic progress in the earliest grades – ...

Incoming kindergartners at Jacob Wismer Elementary performed well on the state kindergarten assessment. Jacob Wismer teacher Melissa Gilchrist chatted with her new student Devansh Sahita in September ...

A rigorous new kindergarten curriculum and assessment program in Montgomery County public schools has produced data showing significant gains in reading skills among the district's 9,000 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives want to eliminate the state’s primary measure of whether children are ready for kindergarten. In the House-passed version of the ...

For 20 kindergartners at Parr’s Ridge Elementary School, the morning is packed with singing and dancing, playing an alphabet game with sticks, and cutting big oval shapes out of paper. And while these ...